The little kingdom
by Michael Moritz · first published 1984
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Portrays the growth of Apple Computer from a garage workshop run by its founders to a company of greater than $1 billion annual sales.
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Read "The Little Kingdom" by Michael Moritz. While it is not only about Steve, it does talk about him quite a bit. It is a great read.
on “New biography of Steve Jobs comes out March 2012” ↗Good luck to Mr Moritz. The Little Kingdom is one of my favorite books about Apple and remains a classic.
on “Mike Moritz Stepping Back From Sequoia Due to Health Problems” ↗…who was working on a kibbutz in Israel. On Jobs's urging the pair turned a pastime into a small business and began selling the devices. "He wanted money," Wozniak said of his partner.' From Return to Little Kingdom by Michael Moritz: http://jmtame.posterous.com/hes-got-the-whole-world-in-his-h...
on “Jobs made Apple great by ignoring profit” ↗What's a good book to read about the early days of Apple? I enjoy these stories but this is necessarily skipping a lot of the story of the apple I and II. A search brings up "The Little Kingdom" by Moritz, but it was published in 1984 so it may include the Mac also released in '84 [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K
on “Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)” ↗…and even Color Computer exist, the extant Apple histories of the subject that I am aware of tend to focus on Steve Jobs, Macintosh, and/or iPhone. The one exception I am aware of is Michael Moritz's The Little Kingdom (1984), but I believe that also focuses more on Jobs and Apple the company than the Apple II (always more of a Woz machine than Jobs) per se, and of course would exclude the second half of the product…
on “The Apple II Age” ↗they even included a guarantee with each one they sold. quoted in Return to Little Kingdom: "The demonstrations provoked curiosity and Jobs and Wozniak made cassette tapes of tones that friends would need to call their favorite long-distance numbers. Jobs arranged a supply of about $40 worth…
on “Steve Jobs Interview about the Blue Box Story ” ↗Sounds like Jobs and Wozniak...? Although, re-reading "The Little Kingdom" seems to present a slightly more complex case.
on “Ask PG/HN: Founder Combination” ↗There's a folklore.org article about the book: https://www.folklore.org/The_Little_Kingdom.html Edit Looking at the Little Kingdom book, it is about the development of the Mac, not the Apple I and II days.
on “Why the Apple II Didn't Support Lowercase Letters (2020)” ↗